Advanced Pond Filtering Systems
Pond Filtration, Inc. manufactures the most technologically advanced filtering system that naturally interrupts the nitrogen cycle of a pond. The filter's primary objective is the natural elimination of algae in suspension. This is achieved through a microbiological process, called "ammonium oxidation".
Advantages Using Activated Carbon
Granular activated carbon has the ability to support a denser bacterial population than sand or plastic beads. It’s porosity, surface area, and surface roughness is unsurpassed for bacterial colonization.
Absorptive capacity serves to:
- Concentrate substances, including the substrates, nutrients and oxygen, on the surface of the carbon. This concentration effect promotes more rapid colonization of bacteria and allows degradation to occur.
- Extend the contact time between the biological mass and absorbed organic substances.
- Reduces the concentration of toxic compounds in local microbial environments.
Activated carbon has a charged surface
- Greater biological activity within and faster colonization on the activated carbon lead to the following benefits over conventional filtration media.
- Greater efficiency for the removal of biodegradable compounds.
- Shorter acclimation time. This has a major impact during start-up and after back washing.
- Faster response to variations in water quality, such as concentration in biodegradable compounds, concentration in toxic organics, and temperature.
- Physical absorption of activated carbon provides additional benefits over conventional filtration media.